<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Post</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</link><description>Post</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Rice Encourages Belarus Opposition]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6481-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6481-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ VILNIUS, Lithuania, April 21  --  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave a boost Thursday to stalled efforts to oust the government of Belarus, holding a high-profile meeting with key opposition figures from the former Soviet republic. Russian and Belarusan officials criticized her actions and statements as interference.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another Russian Revolution?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38431-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38431-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In a country with a popular president, a growing economy and a fragmented and weak opposition, Russia does not seem ripe for revolt, but the Kremlin and its political opponents seem bewitched by the possibility of one.]]></description><author> Peter Finn</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ukraine's U.S.-Born First Lady Shares Husband's Triumph]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35883-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35883-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Wearing a suit adorned with a bright orange brooch, the color of the Ukrainian revolution, first lady    Kateryna Chumachenko Yushchenko  said Wednesday the protests that erupted in Kiev last fall could have turned into a bloodbath.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ukrainian President Appeals to Congress for Aid, Improved Ties]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32385-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32385-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ With a triumphant flourish, as American lawmakers waved orange scarves in support, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko capped his first U.S. tour since taking office by beseeching a joint meeting of Congress yesterday to help anchor his troubled nation firmly in the West.]]></description><author> Peter Baker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Promises More Help to Ukraine]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24568-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24568-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ President Bush, celebrating the recent Orange Revolution in Ukraine as a "powerful example of democracy for people around the world," promised its visiting leader yesterday that he would help the former Soviet republic move closer to the West and eliminate decades-old trade barriers.]]></description><author> Peter Baker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kyrgyz Leader Hints at Plot by West]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58084-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58084-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Askar Akayev of Kyrgyzstan reacted defiantly Tuesday to anti-government protests that have swept the south of the Central Asian republic, charging in a speech to parliament that the "opposition is directed and funded from the outside."]]></description><author> Peter Finn</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Missiles Allegedly Sold To Iran, China]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46435-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46435-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ukrainian weapons dealers smuggled 18 nuclear-capable cruise missiles to Iran and China during the rule of former president Leonid Kuchma, prosecutors said Friday. The missiles have the range to reach Israel and other U.S. allies in the region.]]></description><author> Aleksandar Vasovic</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Funds for Overseas Democracy Are Scarce]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45341-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45341-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The gap between rhetoric and resources has widened as the U.S. pumps substantial funding into the promotion of democracy in Muslim countries, but cuts budgets for groups elsewhere.]]></description><author> Peter Baker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italy to Begin Pullout Of Troops From Iraq]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37189-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37189-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Tuesday that Italy will start withdrawing its 3,000 troops in Iraq in September.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams  and Caryle Murphy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a Foreign Affair]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38390-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38390-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[An unprecedented number of foreign-born players -- seventy-one players from 32 foreign countries and Puerto Rico -- are playing on the NCAA tournament's 65 teams.]]></description><author> Mark Schlabach</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three Iraqi Police Killed At Funeral]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29417-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29417-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Gunmen shot police officers at a funeral procession in Mosul. Meanwhile, Ukraine pulled 150 soldiers from Iraq.]]></description><author> Sameer N. Yacoub</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Local PR Firm Caught in Worldwide Web of Bad Press]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12464-2005Mar6.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12464-2005Mar6.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In early February, Scott Johnson, a partner in a small communications firm called Rock Creek Creative, issued a news  release touting the company's role in the Orange Revolution -- the public protests that led to the  election of Ukrainian  President Viktor Yushchenko in December.]]></description><author> Annys Shin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ukraine Ex-Minister Found Dead]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7029-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</link><guid 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mill was illegal, setting the stage for the first confrontation between some of the nation's biggest businessmen and the new government that vows to undo deals that put state property in the hands of people close to the previous administration.]]></description><author> Aleksandar Vasovic</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64968-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64968-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[    Guatemala Court Pulls Plug On Historic War Crimes Trial <br>    GUATEMALA CITY --  Guatemala's highest court has decided against proceeding with a landmark war crimes trial against soldiers accused of the mass killing of hundreds of civilians in a jungle village in 1982, court officials said Friday.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheney, in Poland, Praises Auschwitz Survivors, Yushchenko]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39122-2005Jan26.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39122-2005Jan26.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Vice President Cheney praised the survivors of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau on Wednesday for overcoming the tyranny of 60 years ago and greeted the world's newest democratic leader, Ukraine's Viktor Yushchenko, as an "ally in freedom's cause."]]></description><author> Jim VandeHei</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russia Still Ally, Ukrainian Says]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33688-2005Jan24.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33688-2005Jan24.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Viktor Yushchenko signaled that he would follow through on pledges of radical changes designed to bring Ukraine closer to the West, a stance that has discomfited some in Russia's establishment.]]></description><author> Peter Finn</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yushchenko Sworn In as Ukraine President]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30051-2005Jan23.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30051-2005Jan23.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In a ceremony rich with the symbols of historic Ukrainian independence, Viktor Yushchenko told a massive crowd of joyous supporters that his inauguration marked a "a victory for freedom over tyranny."]]></description><author> Peter Finn</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Ukraine, a Survivor Ends Up on Top]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29403-2005Jan22.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29403-2005Jan22.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ KIEV, Ukraine, Jan. 22 -- On Thursday night, Yevhen Chervonenko, the millionaire head of security for president-elect Viktor Yushchenko, went to see Leonid Kuchma, the outgoing president of Ukraine, to discuss final details in the handover of power that will be completed with a Sunday inauguration ceremony in parliament.]]></description><author> Peter Finn</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ukraine Election Victor Seeks to Mend Ties With Russia]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23953-2005Jan20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23953-2005Jan20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/ukraine/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ukrainian President-elect Viktor Yushchenko moved Thursday to repair relations with Russia, announcing that he will visit Moscow the day after his inauguration on Sunday. He will then make a swing through the European Union, which Ukraine hopes to join.]]></description><author> Peter Finn</author></item></channel></rss>